Language
6805262116 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. | 0 | |
6805262117 | Extinct Language | An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. | 1 | |
6805262118 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) | 2 | |
6805262119 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. | 3 | |
6805262120 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. | 4 | |
6805262121 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. | 5 | |
6805262122 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. | 6 | |
6805262123 | Language Group | A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. | 7 | |
6805262124 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history | 8 | |
6805262125 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. | 9 | |
6805262126 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese | 10 | |
6805262127 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 11 | |
6805262128 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 12 | |
6805262129 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language | 13 | |
6805262130 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages | 14 | |
6805262131 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages | 15 | |
6805262132 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. | 16 | |
6805262133 | Pidgin Language | A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. | 17 | |
6805262134 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. | 18 | |
6805262135 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. | 19 | |
6805262136 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 20 | |
6805262137 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage | 21 | |
6805262138 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. | 22 | |
6805262139 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. | 23 | |
6805262140 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English | 24 | |
6805262141 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. | 25 | |
6805262142 | Institutional Language | Professional language (not slang) | 26 | |
6805262143 | Developing Language | Language used daily for face-to-face communication, includes a standard written expression, but not used by people all the time | 27 | |
6805262144 | Vigorous Language | Language used daily by all ages but doesn't include a written expression | 28 | |
6805262145 | Subdialect | Broken down version of dialects, usually very close to each other but may differ in pronunciation of local words. | 29 | |
6805262146 | Received Pronunciation | the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England. | 30 | |
6805262147 | Vulgar Latin | Informal Latin spoken by common folk (farmers, soldiers, etc.) in classical times | 31 |